For some reason I'm fascinated by the 2nd-to-last citation. Here Bakker makes a very specific prediction that individual counties that voted for Clinton will be punished with quakes. It's been 2 years. Has this happened? No.

And what about the people in those counties who didn't vote for Clinton? I notice he makes no prediction they'll be miraculously spared. And small wonder, as he subscribes to the Old Testament notion of familial and tribal and national guilt. That's an especially pernicious doctrine designed to keep people in ideological lockstep. It explains a lot of the motivation for trying to force people outside their group to adhere to their group norms. If a majority do not, then the righteous perish along with the wicked.

The last one is weirdly interesting too. How does he decide gay pride events cause one type of disaster, and abortion another? He pretty much pulls it out of his ass.

Standard-issue apocalyptic eschatologies always seize upon events most people find frightening, like earthquakes, tsunamis, mega-storms, vast flood and mudslide events, huge fires ... there's a reason these are called "Biblical" disasters. If you emphasize things humans have minimal control over, you create a perceived need for divine protection and favor and dependence.

We have pretty good documentation of earthquakes in the modern era, and since the invention of the seismograph there's no statistical evidence of progressively increasing seismic activity. Even if there were, the first place to look would be plate tectonics and related sciences, and the last place to look would be supernatural woo.

I’m going to help you here a little bit ok.
When these boogie men tell everyone that it’s the end of times they’re usually just trying to sell you something like I don’t know “ books “ or other guides to prepare you for the hereafter.

The end of times is a subject that predates the biblical times and will continue even after religion is no longer socially acceptable.

But this planet is way way older than we are and will also out last us so the end of times that these people speak of is our time. So unless one of those earthquakes actually split our planet in half they will not be the result of our demise nor are they an actual premonition of doom it’s just the planet doing it’s thing.

Anyway thank you for the entertainment and I hope that you don’t take yourself out prematurely because your jello started shaking but if you do then well more air for the rest of us. And good day

It’s the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine.

Just another example of Magical "thinking".......

Earthquakes or Global Warming/Climate Change or any other absurdity to signal an end to human existence translates into faith-based garbage that people desperately grasp at straws to make real in the here and now. It only gets more than annoying when fanaticism is allowed to influence public, secular law.

How do I know an "end times" earthquake from any other earthquake? BTW, we were in the "end times" when Jesus was talking to the 12 before he was crucified and none of this had anything to do with Japan or the Americas. The bibble just doesn't support anything happening in these places. The televagelists today are pretty close to insane.

They’d be sacrificing humans if allowed to. I can certainly understand those once having believed ‘something beyond them’ was calling the shots; a lighting & thunder storm alone is still hard to comprehend. It creeps me out assuming, in order to have survived in ancient times ..my ancestors surely believed whatever crap everyone else did … but there’s no excuses now.

Some former neighbors of mine in the hills lived from one ‘pending end-times disaster’ to another … I actually lost track.. Y2K, the Mayan Calendar ..right on to Chemtrails - with their bibles by their side! The resources they squandered in ‘preparation’ were horrendous; like breading a herd of horses because they’d “be so valuable when other forms of transportation were gone.”

I’ve come to think such End Times BS is a tactic of cults (large & small) to rally their troops, circle the wagons - and dig in against both nature and society.. Then they’re disappointed when the world doesn't end, and the birds begin to sing as the sun comes out… A sad and creepy lot ~

Hi John, whats a furphy?

So, once again, religion is based on fear. Why do people choose to be scared all the time? It is a choice.

Nothing to do with fracking, of course.

I enjoyed reading about the origin story of the Latter Day Adventists, the other day. It seems some people will always believe that the end is nigh.